Urban Sketchers

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What is Urban Sketchers?

From the streets of the world to your gaming table! Urban Sketchers is a mid-weight eurogame where players travel the world, sketching iconic urban scenes, managing resources, and competing for prestige by publishing reports. In Urban Sketchers, each player is an artist trying to create reports that will be published to earn money and prestige. The more money they earn, the more travel and resources they can afford to continue publishing sketch reports, earning the most prestige points and thus winning the game. In each round there is a shared dice roll, and each player takes turns choosing one die to perform an action: travel, obtain resources, buy cards, play cards (illustrations) in their sketchbook, or publish their sketchbook report. When each player has chosen two of the dice, the first player is passed around clockwise and another roll is made. The game continues for an unspecified number of rounds and ends when a certain number of reports have been published, depending on the number of players. Cities are your canvas. Resources, your tool. Do you have what it takes to become the best Urban Sketcher? —description from the publisher

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